Grab some nog and join us for a very merry podcast this week as Brandon, Harrison, Josh and Eric close out the calendar year with the crushing disappointment of Grid 2, the latest news from Nintendo (including the totally unexpected Hyrule Warriors reveal), and a lengthy conversation about the cancellation of Beware the Batman. Plus, a listener emails segment in which we revisit the greatest games of this past generation!

28 comments on “JKP! Ep.167: The Taste of Batman”

For what it’s worth, Transformers Prime lasted 3 seasons and had a proper season finale and straight to DVD epilogue movie. Though the fact that Hasbro owes the network it aired on may have been a factor.

The original Transformer series lasted 4 seasons (September 17, 1984 – November 11, 1987) not including syndication, that’s 98 episodes along with the animated movie that bridges the gap between the 2 major arcs. They sold several generations of toys ranging from the single form “Mcdonalds” toys to the more complicated gestalts such as Devastator or Superion. Not bad for a show designed solely to sell japanese toys but the problem of today is THIS formula no longer is viable, companies cannot gauge the success of an animated series on whether or not they are able to market merch. to children unless of course they either make something insanely amazing to a broad audience like Adventure Time or Regular Show or you are Disney (I honestly have no idea how Cars is a successful franchise). When you put in that perspective I have no idea why some networks don’t just close up shop and just air reruns of old cartoons.

I wonder if Valve knew, that bear force one was a gay band, when they named a attacking wave in dota 2 that, which is a bunch of bears attacking you.

Harrison, the like or followers thing is also in NBA, alongside some other media like bullshit…

You have been talking about CN having live action skits, but here, there arent any and never were, just shit cartoons. I think around 2004 they started putting on different cartoons, that werent funny or just not what I liked watching at the time and I stopped, but I pretty much watched due to the Hanna Barbera toons, which still hold up! And at that time, I started watching FoxKids, which turned into Jetix, Jetix XD with russian, romanian and croatian commercials for some reason, then turned into DisneyXD, with a ok show every so and so, but just meh…

Side note, you started talking about vaginas and young boys, while I was eating soup…

I never really cared about following shows at certain times, as the schedule was never using our time zone. Like it stated 16.30, but started later and so I never caught the shows. Also it took me a long time to understand AM an PM. The only things I was watching on schedule, were the original Power Rangers and Pokemon, which the station suddenly decided to re-run episodes or just mix them up a bit, quickly after that, taking them off the air.

About games of the decade, I am split between fun, time spent and quality. Spent about 200 in Oblivion, finished it like 4 times, Team Fortress 2 due to multiplayer(400 hours), Mass Effect 2 as stated, FEZ due to pure amazing everything, Portal and Dota2(1400 hours) and Bioshock infinite.
PS- thanks for the hint about the infinite level, Josh=)

Well, take care, merry whatever it is you celebrate and happy new year peeps

I’ll give it to Marc Webb that some things are better altered from the comic (Jaime Fox looks better Smurfified with an LED hoodie than in green spandex with a lightning mask), but robo-Rhino is pushing it. I might even accept if Aleksei stole some sort of military hardware, but a homemade robot suit built by a guy who not supposed to be that bright….we’re getting into Power Ranger Green Goblin territory now.

What really got me is in the background of the slowmo spinny bullet-dodging shot from the trailer, a banner hangs from a building that reads, “Follow the Daily Planet on Tumblr!!!” Oh, my old man pain.

Hey Brandon, if you haven’t already heard of this (highly unlikely, you unscoopable nerd) this is a company I do fulfillment for. It’s a bit like a Kickstarter using T-shirts, nothing ships out until you meet production costs at the end of your campaign. https://www.booster.com/

I envision a King Swim T-shirt with royally regaled Zack holding hot dogs above the water. The water reflection creates a horizontal symmetry that creates a King playing card. All this is rendered in an Art Nouveau style. OK JKP, now….. make it happen! (Who am I kidding, I’ll probably just draw it myself.)